The North Sea from the train on the way to Aberdeen!

The “Granite City” sparkles in the sun, and has a street musician playing bagpipes! I must be in Scotland.

It’s a small world… Jamie Fawcett, formerly of Anchorage, happened to be in Aberdeen! She joined me for dinner and an evening at the Aberdeen Music Hall with Natalie MacMaster, Paul Anderson, and Old Blind Dogs. I wish I could give you an audio sample of the evening. It was brilliant!

Get out recordings of any of those musicians, and listen to them, and imagine them live in concert celebrating the music of the composer James Scott Skinner, “The Strathspey King.”